evaporation
evaporation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The transformation of a portion of a fluid into vapor, in order to obtain the fixed matter contained in it in a state of greater consistence.
- 2.That which is evaporated; vapor.
- 3.(Steam Engine) See Vaporization.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- bay
- boil
- boiling
- bubble
- bubbly
- cavernous
- chloride
- cohobate
- cohobation
- compressibility
- compressible
- cupellation
- diffusion
- dilatation
- dilate
- distill
- distillation
- effervesce
- effervescence
- effervescent
- emit
- ether
- evaporable
- evaporate
- exhalation
- exhale
- expand
- expansion
- fine
- finestill
- flimsy
- fume
- fumigate
- fumigation
- gas
- gaseous
- gasification
- hollow
- inflation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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